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USS Midway Museum A-7B Corsair II Returns from Restoration
USS Midway Museum A-7B Corsair II Returns from Restoration
On June 3rd, the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California took delivery of their freshly-restored LTV A-7B Corsair II. A crane carefully winched the now-pristine naval attack aircraft onto the flight deck of the retired aircraft carrier,
USS Midway, the museum’s home. Over the past two years, museum personnel and volunteers lavished more than 2,000 hours of restoration labor on the aircraft in a workshop at nearby Naval Air Station North Island; she now looks resplendent in livery worn by the
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Imagine a place with no civilian traffic, 2 runways and unrestricted airspace - the perfect location for a major air-to-air exercise. This is Tyndall AFB, which provides access to 180,000 square miles of airspace over the Gulf of Mexico. Recently, it was the center of Checkered Flag, one of the Department of Defense (DoD)’s largest air-to-air exercises. Air Force and U.S. Navy fleets were integrated in this large-scale exercise that included command and control aircraft, fighters, tankers and electronic warfare elements.
Over 115 aircraft and 15 joint squadrons participated, with 2,000 personnel and 71 of those aircraft operating out of Tyndall AFB. Due to the complexity of Checkered Flag, all of the participants could not be gathered in one place, and some units operated out of Cecil Field in Jacksonville and Eglin Air Force Base. According to Lt Col.